The Negative Images Of Women In Magazines

Media, especially magazines, is known for taking things out of perspective when it comes to the way they view women. Sometimes they show unrealistic body images or they expect all women to act and look the same way, however things are starting to change and so should the way women are viewed through media. Magazines need to start including plus size women to model, not only to change the way things used to be, but to also give body empowerment to younger girls; they also to present models as who they are without using photoshop to make their bodies into something that can not be achieved.
Plenty of women look at magazines daily and notice that there are these models who have great bodies that most ladies cannot achieve, however for a number of magazines they use photoshop to create the

bodies of the models.

In order for women to feel comfortable in their skin, they get this mentality that they need to continuously go to the gym and resort to unhealthy weight losing methods to try and get this desired body type that may not be achievable. Even young girl compare themselves to models shown in magazines, and are scared to become “fat” once them have seen women with a body type that is socially accepted. Throughout history there has been this way that women and young girls are viewed in society, in which if they are not slender, than those ladies are considered unattractive. Media has played a big role in making many women believe that they were not pretty if they did not have a specific body shape, flawless skin, or perfect hair. It never truly showed what these models looked like from a day to day basis. Young girls would see models with these

characteristics and think that in order to be accepted by people they should look like those models in magazines. Women of all different types would start to do very bad things to themselves to reach these un-natural standards. However, things are slowly changing because women are now seeing their true beauty, and are trying to get the message out that if you are not thin then it is okay. Now women can start to look in magazines and notice that we are getting more images of plus-sized models. With this starting to happen more and more young girls will see that there is nothing wrong with who they are.
We are slowly starting to get plus size models, but for them it is still a struggle to be a model with the way society views plus sized women to typical models. For the longest time young girls and women were old if they were not a size 6 or below, they were considered “fat”. Eventually girls would notice that if they were higher than a size 6, it was okay as long as they were not “plus-sized”. Women were so scared to ever be called “big” or “fat” because in our society people would always compare young girls to these models seen in magazines.